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• The simple but difficult arts of paying attention, copying accurately
  following an argument, detecting an ambiguity or a false inference, testing guesses by summoning up contrary instances, organizing one's time and one's thought for study- all these arts cannot be taught in the air but only through the difficulties of a defined subjec...
• The analogy to athletics must be pressed until all recognize that in the exercise of intellect those who lack the muscle
  coordination, and will power can claim no place at the training table, let alone on the playing field....
• Extended Epstein-Heisenberg Principle In an R & D orbit, only 2 of the existing 3 parameters can be defined simultaneously.
  The parameters are: task, time and resources ($...
• Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. -- Eleanor Roosevel
• ivial adj. 1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2.
  Not worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable by methods so well known that anyone not utterly cretinous would have thought of them already....
• Forthoffer's Cynical Summary of Barzun's Laws 1) That which has not yet been taught directly can never be taught directly.
  2) If at first you don't succeed, you will never succeed....
• The winds of change are in the air in Springfield, and it's about as refreshing as a pre-moistened towlette.
  Folks are finally accepting their feelings and really communicating, with no holding back, and this reporter thinks it's about [bleep]ing time....
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• No one remembers learning how to use a spoon, it is something that is learned and not taught.